Browsing Theses - Business and Social Sciences ITS by Author "Share, Perry"
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Around the table : food work in children's residential services in Ireland
Byrne, Deirdre (Institute of Technology, Sligo, 2016)This study uses food and eating practices around the table to explore the complexities of daily life in residential care settings for young people principally from the workers’ perspective. The overall aim is to elicit the ... -
Constraints on the development of rural tourism enterprise in Ireland's western region
Price, Sophie (Institute of Technology, Sligo, 2010) -
Facilitating the transition from product-orientated to product service systems
Ryan, Linda (Institute of Technology, Sligo, 2013)Many traditional manufacturing firms within the EU are increasingly challenged by companies operating in developing countries with low-cost labour bases (Yoon et al., 2012). Instead, manufacturers are encouraged to develop ... -
The Irish pub as a third place : a sociological exploration of people, place and identity
Scarbrough, Gwendolyn (Institute of Technology, Sligo, 2008-07)There is considerable interest in alcohol in Irish society, yet minimal sociologcial understanding of its consumption, particularly of the sites where most drinking occurs: the country's 8750 pubs. Despite widespread ... -
The localisation of the fast food industry in Ireland
Flanagan, Declan E. (Institute of Technology, Sligo, 2004-09)For many years food as an academic discipline was ignored by academics in favour of more ‘serious’ topics such as poverty, unemployment and gender issues within the workplace. We as people now live in a consumer society ... -
The reconfiguration of CPD for social care practitioners in Ireland : an activity theory approach
O'Hara, Maureen (Institute of Technology, Sligo, 2016)Social care practitioners at the frontline require specific Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Many changes affecting practitioners have occurred in Irish society since the start of the 21st century, resulting in ... -
Socially integrative customer service (SICS) : identification of a symbiotic link with corporate social responsibility
McGuinn, Catherine (Institute of Technology, Sligo, 2005)The aim of this study is to answer the research question "can customer service be revitalised through identification of a symbiotic relationship with social responsibility, linked by people-centricity?" The concept of ...